What is CrossFit?
Fitness in 100 words or less:
Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.
Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.
Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.
~Greg Glassman, Courtesy of CrossFit Inc.
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide including professional dads, moms, grandparents and kids! Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.
Yes it is hard and yes you can do it! There’s a great saying that “CrossFit is for everyone, but everyone is not for Crossfit.” We are dedicated individuals who are passionate about health, fitness and being a part of a positive community. Unless you’re the type of person who really wants to see results, is willing to work hard for them and wants to have fun getting there, then this program may not be right for you.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any individual regardless of experience. By scaling load and intensity we’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We constantly vary the exercises, sets, reps, durations and intensity to provide the maximum stimulus for our members. With CrossFit, plateauing is a thing of the past. Still think it is too hard? Check out 72-year old Barbara’s story and video…
Please read What is Fitness by CrossFit founder Greg Glassman.
-courtesy of CrossFit Inc. and
